“Unveiling the Allure: Why Brutalism Captivates Yet Confounds Modern Design”
There are a lot of these rises followed by falls in the script, which make you feel like you’re on a roller coaster. Which is exactly what you want to do in a story. You don’t want everything to be positive. You want to bring the reader up, then down, then up, then down. That sort of emotional volatility is like crack to audiences.
I realized that you can do more of that with a 4 hour movie than you can a 2 hour movie. A 2 hour movie has to be so lean that you don’t have time to include many falls. I mean do we NEED the scene of Van Buren kicking him out? No. Technically, we do not. He’ll later come back to hire Laszlo again. So why not just jump straight to Van Buren liking the room and hiring him for the bigger job?